GUARDIANSHIP OF WEEDON


409 Mass. 196 (1991)

565 N.E.2d 432

GUARDIANSHIP OF EDWARD B. WEEDON, THIRD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

January 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Hefferon for the ward.

Lisa A. Levy, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Mental Health.

Stan Goldman & Robert D. Fleischner, for Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee, & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

At issue is the validity of a substituted judgment order dated 1984 authorizing forcible administration of antipsychotic drugs, issued pursuant to G.L.c. 201, § 6 (1988 ed.). The parties agree that the substituted judgment order terminated during the course of these proceedings1 because a Probate and Family Court judge determined that the appellant was competent. The judge discharged the appellant's guardian, although he...

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